LTMP

Hodgson et al. have demonstrated that arylalkenes 139 and dienes 140 can readily be prepared from simple terminal epoxides in a highly stereoselective manner by employing LTMP as base in combination with aryl and vinyllithiums as nucleophiles at 0 °C (Scheme 5.31) [41]. Without addition of LTMP, secondary alcohols... 

Shimizu et al. have introduced an indirect route to stabilized lithiated epoxides. Treatment of dichlorohydrin 184 with 3 equiv. of vinyllithium in the presence of 3 equiv. of LTMP gave lithiated epoxide 185, which could be trapped with a range of electrophiles (e. g., Me3SnCl) to give 1,2-divinyl epoxides 186 these in turn underwent Cope rearrangements on heating to give oxepanes 187 (Scheme 5.43) [67]. 

Use of LTMP as base [52] in situ with Me3SiCl allows straightforward access to a variety of synthetically useful a, 3-epoxysilanes 232 at near ambient temperature directly from (enantiopure) terminal epoxides 231 (Scheme 5.55) [81]. This reaction relies on the fact that the hindered lithium amide LTMP is compatible with Me3SiCl under the reaction conditions and that the electrophile trapping of the nonstabilized lithiated epoxide intermediate must be very rapid, since the latter are usually thermally very labile. 

Direct deprotonation/electrophile trapping of simple aziridines is also possible. Treatment of a range of N-Bus-protected terminal aziridines 265 with LTMP in the presence ofMe3SiCl in THF at-78 °C stereospecifically gave trans-a, 3-aziridinylsi-lanes 266 (Scheme 5.67) [96]. By increasing the reaction temperature (to 0 °C) it was also possible to a-silylate a (3-disubstituted aziridine one should note that attempted silylation of the analogous epoxide did not provide any of the desired product [81],... 

Substituted 2-butenylboranes 1 can be prepared via the metalation of 9-[(E)-2-butenyl]-9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane with lithium tetramethylpiperidide (LTMP) in tetrahydrofuran at 23 "C followed by treating the resulting anion with chlorotrimethylsilane or chlorotrimethyl-slannanels. 

Recently, optically active (+)-(R)-methy 1 tolyl sulfoxide 102, R = H was alkylated with a very high diastereoselectivity136. The sulfoxide was treated with either lithium diisopropy-lamide (LDA) or lithium tetramethylpiperidide (LTMP) to form the lithio-derivative, which upon subsequent reaction with lithium a-bromomethyl acrylate gave a mixture of two diastereomers of a-methylene-y-sulfinylcarboxylic acid 103. The use of the sterically highly hindered base, LTMP, gave the product with a higher diastereoselectivity. For example, the Sc4 Rc4 ratio was 95 5 when R was the methyl group. 

Trifluoromethylbenzocyclobutenols yield isochroman-l-ols on treatment with aromatic aldehydes and LTMP and hence serve as laterally-lithiated 2-methyltrifluoromcthyl-acetophenone <96SL57>. 

Mono- or bis-bromine-lithium exchange on dibromopyrrole 77 affords stannylpyrroles 78 or 79, respectively, and N-BOC-2-trimethylstannylpyrrole is obtained in 75% yield from N-BOC pyrrole by lithiation with LTMP and quenching with Me3SnCl [15]. 

Qudguiner s group lithiated a sym-disubstituted pyrazine, 2,6-dimethoxypyrazine (43), with lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine (LTMP). The resulting lithiated intermediate was quenched with h to give 3-iodo-2,6-dimethoxypyrazine (44) and 3,5-diiodo-2,6-dimethoxypyrazine (45) [35]. Iodide 44 was then coupled with phenylacetylene to provide adduct 46. 

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